Re: Adjusting air brakes

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Posted by G-MAN on November 19, 2004 at 16:00:34 from (67.52.48.10):

In Reply to: Adjusting air brakes posted by Can't even use my name on November 19, 2004 at 15:45:20:

I believe the DOT boys measure how far the end of the slack-adjuster actually travels, because if the brakes are excessively worn, they can technically be "in adjustment" but still travel too far. Or at least that's the way I seem to remember it. I went to school to work on trucks, but 3 months of working on them for my co-op quarter at tech school firmly convinced me that I didn't want to work on them full-time, lol. I haven't worked on trucks for years, but we always adjusted the slacks up until the shoes were solid against the drums and then backed them off about 1/4 turn or so.

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